Films: Second World War

Director(s): Angelopoulos, Theodoros, King, Henry, Launder, Frank, Stojanovic, Gorcin, Bernard, Raymond, Bresson, Robert, Audiard, Jacques, Zeffirelli, Franco
Year: 2004
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Part 1 of a trilogy which was uncompleted due to the director's death. The Weeping Meadow follows events in Greek history from 1919 to the aftermath of the Second World War. A band of...

Director(s): Angelopoulos, Theodoros, King, Henry, Launder, Frank, Stojanovic, Gorcin, Bernard, Raymond, Bresson, Robert, Audiard, Jacques, Zeffirelli, Franco
Year: 1949
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Twelve O'Clock High shows the danger of air warfare during World War II. In 1942, an American Air Force unit stationed in England is plagued with morale problems until no-nonsense...

Director(s): Angelopoulos, Theodoros, King, Henry, Launder, Frank, Stojanovic, Gorcin, Bernard, Raymond, Bresson, Robert, Audiard, Jacques, Zeffirelli, Franco
Year: 1944
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Two Thousand Women is a 1944 British comedy-drama war film about a German internment camp in Occupied France which holds British women who have been resident in the country. Three RAF ...

Director(s): Angelopoulos, Theodoros, King, Henry, Launder, Frank, Stojanovic, Gorcin, Bernard, Raymond, Bresson, Robert, Audiard, Jacques, Zeffirelli, Franco
Year: 1995
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Two concurrent love stores set in Belgrade, one during World War II and the other during the Yugoslav Wars, reveal how the moral compromises of the past inform the present. As Jelena reconstructs...

Director(s): Angelopoulos, Theodoros, King, Henry, Launder, Frank, Stojanovic, Gorcin, Bernard, Raymond, Bresson, Robert, Audiard, Jacques, Zeffirelli, Franco
Year: 1946
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World War II in France: Commandant Gérard and his troop of Resistance fighters have discovered the ideal hiding-spot: a rest home in the Alps providing refuge for, among mentally ill patients, a...

Director(s): Angelopoulos, Theodoros, King, Henry, Launder, Frank, Stojanovic, Gorcin, Bernard, Raymond, Bresson, Robert, Audiard, Jacques, Zeffirelli, Franco
Year: 1956
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Based on the memoirs of André Devigny (1916–1999), this film focuses on a French Resistance fighter imprisoned at Montluc, a Nazi internment camp in Lyon during World War II. Awaiting a certain...

Director(s): Angelopoulos, Theodoros, King, Henry, Launder, Frank, Stojanovic, Gorcin, Bernard, Raymond, Bresson, Robert, Audiard, Jacques, Zeffirelli, Franco
Year: 1996
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Since he was young, salesman Albert Dehousse wanted to be a hero. Following the liberation of France after the Second World War, Albert leaves his home and wife and sets out for Paris where he...

Director(s): Angelopoulos, Theodoros, King, Henry, Launder, Frank, Stojanovic, Gorcin, Bernard, Raymond, Bresson, Robert, Audiard, Jacques, Zeffirelli, Franco
Year: 1999
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In this semi-autobiographical tale, a group of women and their Italian ward find their refuge in Florence endangered by World War II. Known locally as the Scorpioni, these British and American...

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